No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
(Aesop)
[The Lion and the Mouse - Aesop's Fables]

Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.
(Peter Shepherd)

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
(George Washington Carver)

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
(Leo Buscaglia)

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
(Mother Teresa)

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
(Alan Cohen)

Before you speak ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
(Sai Baba)

When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.
(Marshall B. Rosenberg)

The more you practice the three trainings of ethics, meditation, and wisdom, the more difficult it will become for you to act in a way that is contrary to an ethical, compassionate attitude. Ethics arise naturally out of contemplating the three trainings.
(Martine Batchelor)

Angels touch us through writing, meditation, the kindness of strangers, or words of wisdom spoken by a friend.
(Susan Santucci)

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
(Dalai Lama)

But how can you say, 'It was only talk, so no harm was done?' Were this true, then your prayers, and words of kindness, would be a waste of breath.
(Nachman of Bratslay)

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
(Ray Bradbury)

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
(Aesop)
[Aesop's Fables]

The memory of a good deed lives.
(Aesop)
[The Old Woman and the Wine Jar - Aesop's Fables]

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
(Aesop)
[Aesop's Fables]

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
(Albert Schweitzer)

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
(Raymond Chandler)
[from the novel Dick Tracy]

Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own.
(Adam Lindsay Gordon)

Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
(Richard Carlson)

The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that inspires it.
(The Talmud)